Long before racing circuits were paved with high tech safety barriers and pit crews with headsets, there was the Targa Florio. Born on the rugged roads of Sicily in 1906, this daring race wound ...
Picture it: Sicily, 1906, a ragtag bunch of cars and a dusty and dangerous path to glory. The race is the brainchild of Vincenzo Florio, Jr., the scion of a family made wealthy by fishing, pottery, ...
In 1960, Jo Bonnier and Hans Herrmann won the Sicily-spanning Targa Florio in a Porsche 718 RS-60. That car has since lived in collector hands and now belongs to the Revs Institute in Florida, but it ...
It’s an elemental thing, the 2.0-liter Mercedes-Benz Targa Florio. You’re out in the wind, the exhaust snarling at your right elbow, the smell of oil on hot metal in your nostrils as you muscle a ...
La Maserati Tipo 26 fu la prima vettura da competizione a portare il "tridente", segnando l’inizio della storia sportiva del ...
CEFALÙ, Italy – Winter has arrived in Detroit, and while it’s been milder than usual, it’s also been gray, wet and bleak. So of course the thought of a quick trip to southern Italy sounded like an ...
The Sicilian crowd went wild as Lancia made its much-anticipated return to racing on the legendary curves of the Madonie mountains on Friday May 9th and Saturday May 10th at the Targa Florio Rally, ...
Sixty years ago a sports car broke new ground for Ferrari, the 246 SP ushering in a revolutionary mid-engined layout that ...
Targa and Turbo — two magical Porsche terms that first merged in a 911 in 1987. With only 297 units ever built, examples like this Grand Prix White G-Model — currently up for sale — rank among the ...